Hi I’m creating an app for new dog owners and I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a name generator where the dog owner gets suggestions of name and can press thumbs up or down?
use it to get fake names
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Thanks! How to implement this randomized feature in Glide?
the reshuffle buttonor @ThinhDinh might now a formula
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I take it you want to generate 1 at a time, if you want an array of names:
- Remove the [1], automatically default to max = 10 names in 10 rows.
=IMPORTXML("https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/","//div[@class='name_heading']") - Change the number to generate dynamically using ARRAY_CONSTRAIN:
=ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(IMPORTXML("https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/","//div[@class='name_heading']"),insert number of names to generate,1)
E.g:
= ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(IMPORTXML("https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/","//div[@class='name_heading']"),8,1)
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Wow, cool. Will check this out!
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Could it be done with this site as well? https://www.mydogsname.com/
Hi Hedda, I will try to create one for you later today. Close to 6am here, few hours before I get to the laptop 
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Haha no stress. Amazed that you are awake! 
Just checked and there’s not an easy way to do that because there are quite many combinations to choose from (gender/styles/themes), each one leads you to an URL that’s strangely structured (I chose a combination of 3 and it threw back an undefined type in my search URL).
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Would this (https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dog-wolf-names.php) or this (https://pupbox.com/puppy-name-generator/) site be easier ?
Can’t seem to get anything working for the first one, for the second one it always return Albert (I assume that’s the first name in the database).
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Ah, what if I create a long list in Excel with names .Is it possible to get them to randomize i Glide?
=INDEX(Range that store names,RANDBETWEEN(1,Max number of names))
This should work.